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H F JENKS DRINKING FOUNTAIN. I No. 586,813. Patented Ju1y 13,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY F. .IENKS, OF PAIVTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND.

DRINKING-FOUNTAIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 586,313, dated July 13,1897.

Application filed November 6, 1896. Serial No. 611,285. (No model.)

To 0,17, whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY F. J ENKS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pawtucket, in the county of Providence, in the State ofRhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Drinking-CupAttachments for Fountains, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my inventionv is to provide a chained drinking-cup soarranged that the cup will be drawn by the chain to an eye or pocket forholding the cup; and it consists in a drinking-cup having a chainattached thereto and a stationary eye or pocket through which the chainpasses and to which the cup will be drawn by the weight of the chain, ashereinafter fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawing the figure represents the central verticalsection of a drinking fountain provided with my improved drinking-cupattachment.

In the drawing, A represents the hollow base of the fountain; B, theannular basin adapted to receive the overflow; O, the waterpipe, and D Dfaucets connected therewith, the discharging-aperture of the faucetsbeing preferably located directly over the drinkingcup E, as shown inthe drawing, so that the water will be discharged from the faucet intothe said cup when it is held in the eye or pocket G. The chain II isattached to the bottom of the cup E and passes downward through the eyeor pocket G, and to the lower end of the chain is attached the Weight I,which forms a stop adapted to prevent the complete withdrawal of thechain from the said eye or pocket G. When the filled cup E has beenraised to the position for drinking, as shown in the drawing, the weightof the chain II will serve to carry the cup back to the eye or pocketGin which it is to be held.

Instead of attaching a separate chain and weight to each cup arranged ata drinkingfountain two cups may have theirchains connected to a singleweight or stop I, as shown by the dotted chain connection in thedrawing.

I claim as my invention- The combination of a drinking-cup having achain attached thereto, with a stationary eye or pocket through whichthe chain passes, and to which the cup will be drawn by the chain, andmeans for preventing the complete withdrawal of the chain from the eyeor pocket, substantially as described.

HENRY F. JENKS.

Witnesses:

Soonnrns SCHOLFIELD, JAMES IV. BEAMAN.

